Fernando Costa
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name |
Fernando Eurico de Barros Oliveira da Fonseca e Costa |
| National team |
 Portugal |
| Born |
29 April 1985 Porto, Portugal |
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Freestyle |
| Club | Leixões Sport Clube |
| College team | Wayne State University (U.S.) |
| Coach | José Baltar Leite |
Fernando Eurico de Barros Oliveira da Fonseca e Costa (also Fernando Costa, born April 29, 1985) is a Portuguese former swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle events.[1] He is a two-time Olympian, and currently holds the Portuguese record in the 1500 m freestyle from the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand.
Costa made his first Portuguese team, as a 19-year-old, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where he competed in the men's 1500 m freestyle. Swimming in last out of five heats, Costa closed out the field with an eighth-place finish and twenty-first overall in 15:32.55, more than thirty seconds behind the winner Yuri Prilukov of Russia.[2][3]
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Costa qualified for the second time in the men's 1500 m freestyle, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 15:16.22 from the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand.[4][5] Costa challenged six other swimmers on the second heat, including three-time Olympians Dragoș Coman of Romania, and Nicolas Rostoucher of France. He raced to sixth place by two seconds behind Coman in 15:26.21. Costa failed to advance into the final for the second time, as he placed twenty-ninth overall in the prelims.[6]
Costa is also a former member and a student assistant coach of the swimming team for the Wayne State Warriors, and a graduate of nutrition and food science at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
References
- ↑ "Fernando Costa". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
- ↑ "Men's 1500m Freestyle Heat 5". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 20 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ↑ Thomas, Stephen (20 August 2004). "Men's 1500 Freestyle, Prelims Day 7: David Davies Fastest, Posts British Record 14:57.03". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
- ↑ "Desporto: Universíadas – Fernando Costa mínimos olímpicos e recorde nos 1.500 livres" [Sports: Universiade – Fernando Costa set an Olympic place and national record in the 1,500 free] (in Portuguese). Jornal de Noticias. 14 August 2007. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
- ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 1500m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 20. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
- ↑ "Men's 1500m Freestyle Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 16 January 2013.